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Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Zittrain, David Faber, Guido Scorza

Inspired by some tech bro saying their algorithm found this writing so awful it couldn't process it. I decided to have a read. It's wonderful. Well written and interesting.

What's more. It made me think about door knobs and handles. Everywhere I've ever lived has had handles. To the point I've always thought lever style door handles were the norm. Door knobs are rare. So rare, that at a friend's house recently. I couldn't work out how to open the front door...

https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing/nonfiction/20250626/

On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

More notable reporting on the flood tragedy in Texas, this time in Wired. (Thanks to @macosken for pointing me there.) Wired spoke to meteorologists Chris Vagasky and Matt Lanza.

Wired reports:

Meteorologists say that the NWS did send out adequate warnings as it got updated information. By Thursday afternoon, it had issued a flood watch for the area, and a flash flood warning was in effect by 1am Friday. The agency had issued a flash flood emergency alert by 4:30am.

“The Weather Service was on the ball,” Vagasky says. “They were getting the message out.”

But as local outlet KXAN first reported, it appears that the first flood warnings posted from safety officials to the public were sent out on Facebook at 5am, hours after the NWS issued its warning.

“Clearly there was a breakdown between when the warning was issued and how people got it, and I think that’s really what has to be talked about,” Lanza says.

https://www.wired.com/story/meteorologists-say-the-national-weather-service-did-its-job-in-texas/ or https://archive.vn/jSGWZ

#Texas #flood #TXwx #NWS

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk.

WIRED

@timbray

don't be silly, they'll be in every state and city

#OtD 6 Jul 1921 the Arditi del Popolo, an early militant anti-fascist organisation, was formed in Rome, Italy, to defend workers from escalating attacks by the fascist blackshirts of Benito Mussolini. Within a year it had over 20,000 members. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10626/arditi-del-popolo-rally
Working Class History

Flock Safety has built a system where ICE can access local police data via informal backchannels and abortion seekers can be tracked under the guise of “missing persons.” And they’re continuing to expand it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/flock-safetys-feature-updates-cannot-make-automated-license-plate-readers-safe
Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe

Two recent statements from the surveillance company—one addressing Illinois privacy violations and another defending the company's national surveillance network—reveal a troubling pattern: when confronted by evidence of widespread abuse, Flock Safety has blamed users, downplayed harms, and doubled...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Timelapse view of the July 2025 flash flood that swelled the Guadalupe River

This timelapse shows the Guadalupe River during the July 4th, 2025 flash flood that caused immense damage and many fatalities, including at Camp Mystic. 

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2025/07/timelapse-view-of-the-july-2025-flash-flood-that-swelled-the-guadalupe-river/

#DisasterRecovery #EmergencyPreparedness

Timelapse view of the July 2025 flash flood that swelled the Guadalupe River - In Brief

This timelapse shows the Guadalupe River during the July 4th, 2025 flash flood that caused immense damage and many fatalities, including at Camp Mystic. 

In Brief

‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding

"As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials from across the country scrambling for answers," CNN reports.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2025/07/weve-been-ghosted-by-fema-officials-across-country-say-they-cant-get-answers-on-critical-funding/

#DisasterRecovery #EmergencyPreparedness

‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding - In Brief

"As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials from across the country scrambling for answers," CNN reports.

In Brief

@democratsabroad
Sure. Will you promise to work to bring down skyrocketing inequality from where the last 3 Democrat administrations put it? Say, to where it was after the first Bush administration?And present a coherent program explaining how you are gonna do it, and actually implement it?

Be sure that if you do that, millions of people will come join you. Otherwise only millionaires and billionaires.

The red ellipse shows what is expected from you.

#USpol #inequality #thePriceOfEggs

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@rbreich That's a really good point to remember.

@rbreich

"Not Alligator Alcatraz. Alcatraz held people who had been convicted in a court of law.

This is Alligator Auschwitz, which will hold people who are not charged with anything other than the crime of being brown, just like Auschwitz held those for the crime of being a Jew."
-Керрі Світ
https://bsky.app/profile/carriesweet.bsky.social/post/3lsragabzhs2f

#Trump #GOP #Republicans #AlligatorAlcatraz #AlligatorAuschwitz #ConcentrationCamps #Fascism #USPol #Politics #Florida #US #USA

@ZhiZhu @rbreich

Don't you think the alligators are ashamed their name is used in such a way?

@ZhiZhu @rbreich I beg to differ. Auschwitz was an institution of industrial mass murder. Entire trainloads of people (that's 1000+ humans in case "trainloads" sounds too abstract) were killed immediately after arrival in purpose-built facilities. And it was one site in a grand scheme of genocide.

Trump is evil. Alligator Alcatraz must not be. But it is not Auschwitz.

@Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich Give them a few months.
@hosford42 @Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich they won’t start mass murdering people in Florida. Instead they will deport them to countries they’ve never been to, like South Sudan. Or send them to a 3rd country prison like in El Salvador. They won’t kill thrm immediately, but they will severely harm them and likely shorten their lives, deliberately and intentionally. It’s not literally Auschwitz, but the intent is the same
@FlockOfCats @Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich Until that becomes too inconvenient. Then they will do it right here.
@Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich so once you spend all summer packing this full of people, what’s the plan for this shoddily constructed abomination when hurricane season hits?
@ReasonableMustelid @ZhiZhu @rbreich the fact that hurricanes seem to be part of the plan is extremely disturbing, to use diplomatic language (source:Wikipedia, citing https://web.archive.org/web/20250701192512/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/alligator-alcatraz-set-open-trump-desantis-rcna215943 )
'Alligator Alcatraz' opens, with Trump in attendance

Donald Trump is in the Florida Everglades Tuesday for the opening of a controversial immigrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

NBC News
@Hinz_oder_Kunz @rbreich @ZhiZhu so yeah, that’s a death camp.
@ReasonableMustelid @rbreich @ZhiZhu so far it's a very questionable detention center and some MAGA bullshit talk.
When a hurricane hits, I sincerely hope for an evacuation plan to be carried out largely unrecognized as some other MAGAtrocity sucks up all attention.
@ZhiZhu @Hinz_oder_Kunz @rbreich keep on hoping, but we can’t even manage evacuation plans for people in regular old neighborhoods. Detention camps don’t stand a chance.
@Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich what do you think they plan on doing with them if nobody will take them? They don’t plan on letting them back out, I’ll tell you that much. That gang prison in El Salvador isn’t going to hold them all. There’s a reason they called it the Final Solution and not Step One.

@passwordsarehard4 @Hinz_oder_Kunz @rbreich

Nazi #ConcentrationCamps were originally referred to as "deportation" camps, where Jewish people would be held prior to being deported. But actually deporting Jewish people turned out to be slower and more expensive than other options. So... The #Nazis turned to the "Final Solution" which was much more "efficient."

The first US Concentration Camp - #AlligatorAuschwitz - in #Florida will cost $450 million per year to operate. So…

@Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich

Auschwitz was established in 1939, almost immediately after the German invasion of Poland. It was used to imprison people immediately: initially former Polish soldiers. They didn't start the mass executions until almost two years later, in August 1941 after the invasion of the USSR.

Auschwitz was still Auschwitz for those two years before the mass murders began. Before it was a factory for killing people, it was a prison.

Calling a prison Auschwitz isn't historically inaccurate. It just means that the mass murders haven't started yet.

@passenger @Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich

hmmm no. Auschwitz was established in 1939 as a concentration camps.

The purpose of a concentration camp is to kill people through labor.

It was not a prison.

@rbreich The branding is right there, folks. Not Alligator Alcatraz—Alligator Auschwitz.

A failure of imagination with these folks will always have on our back foot.

@DanMorgan @rbreich They've copied Dachau almost exactly with this camp. I hope the American people understand what's coming next.
@rbreich Those really aren’t the same. Alligator Auschwitz isn’t the type of shelter, food, or medical care I’d want to give a homeless person. It’s inhumane.
@rbreich And it’s not even to do with money. The cruelty is the point.

@PaulNickson @rbreich

Men like Stephen Miller are directly profiting from this mass deportation campaign. So a private prison and private transportation sector.

@rbreich They are all wealty in comparison to the average America. It's disgusting to steal from the least to pad the pockets of those who don't NEED IT FFS!!

@LeelaTorres
@​broadwaybabyto

It took just over a week to create a massive
concentration camp.

Remember this the next time those in power
claim they can't house the homeless, feed the
starving or provide medical care to the poor.

= =

They can, they don't want to.

@rbreich What they will do at some point: send the homeless and the poor to Alligator Alcatraz because that's what unempathetic evil does. They will always go a step further: First undocumented immigrants, then legal immigrants, LBGTQ+-floks, the disabled, the the poor and homeless, black people, women, until there are only a handful of white arseholes left who think they are the kings of the world. And when there is nobody left to hate they will expand.

@art_histories @rbreich

RFK jr was chatting up health camps for people with the moral deficiency of drug addiction or gender dysphoria.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @rbreich Yes, easily to forget because of all the BS you are confronted with daily. Health camps for autistic and ADHD folks. They sure like 1930s Germany. It's ... Idk... our gouvernment is taking notes and tries to pull the same horrible things. The first court orders were already ignored.
@rbreich What's Alligator Alcatraz? Is it like Polar Bear Jail?
@alteNBnordpfalz @rbreich It's a concentration camp, intentionally built in a swampy region so escapees will die by alligator.
@rbreich Does the tiny print at the top mean this was actually a post by @broadwaybabyto? And instead of boosting the work of a disabled writer you took a screenshot and didn’t bother with alt text, making it *less accessible*?

@Cassandra
Pretty sure this Robert Reich person / bot doesn't care. I've never seen it interact at all, just post screen shots of its Bluesky account or some other stolen posts.

I think there must be multiples, because I seem to keep blocking this.

@rbreich @broadwaybabyto

@xinit Ah, yes, I scrolled back a week and didn't see any interaction at all. Gross. Thanks.
@Cassandra @xinit It's not a bot, this is the mastodon account of Robert Reich, former secretary of labor of the US under Bill Clinton. Proof it is him is him linking it from his website. I just think he uses it as a cross post account though, I've also never seen him react to anyone.
@GLaDTheresCake
well, I'd go so far as to accept "official bot" for now :)
@Cassandra

@GLaDTheresCake @Cassandra @xinit
His website links to a linktree, which links to all his socials, including Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. His website also links directly to a few profiles (Mastodon not included). Not linking directly means that any Mastodon profile verification won't work.

Funnily enough, some of his recent posts are posted on Threads and Bluesky as plain text, and posted here as images.

@dec23k

That last bit's the part that really confuses me. Wouldn't it be easier for the human or bot behind the posting to ... just post the text again rather than taking a screenshot and posting that?

@GLaDTheresCake @Cassandra

@rbreich a tent with cages. what do you think will happen in the first hurricane that hits

@rbreich It's a concentration camp. They won't be feeding anyone; at least not food they can or should actually eat. They'll also be using them for forced labor, and people are going to die there due to starvation, disease, and lack of proper sanitation, or even direct maltreatment.

That's hardly the same as "housing the homeless." At least not properly. Of course, there are always the prisons, the workhouses, and all other horrors funded by Gulag Scrooge.

@rbreich why do people keep spelling #AlligatorAuschwitz wrong?? I can't carry all this water myself.

@rbreich

Poverty is arranged. Poverty is built. Poverty is enforced.

Poverty is a shameful crime of the wealthy.

@rbreich The devil destroys. There is no compassion within him.

@rbreich
Although it is very obvious, that concentration camps are neither "housing" nor do they provide food better than calories or anything which might resemble medical treatment.

Only thing this proves is, that they are willing to spend lots of money to make lives worse.